Sri Lanka (02)

1796-1972 British rule


1796-1948

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1796 16 february UK Occupation Robert Andrews
1798 12 october Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (I)
1799 14 march Josias Champagne
1799 22 july Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (II)
1802 1 janaury UK Colony of Ceylon Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (II)
1805 19 july Thomas Maitland
1811 19 march John Wilson (I)
1812 11 march Robert Brownrigg
1820 1 february Edward Barnes (I)
1822 2 february Edward Paget
1822 6 november James Campbell
1824 18 january Edward Barnes (II)
1831 13 october John Wilson (II)
1831 23 october Robert Wilmot-Horton
1837 7 november James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie
1841 15 april Colin Campbell
1847 19 april James Emerson Tennent
1847 29 may George Byng, Viscount Torrington
1850 18 october Charles Justin MacCarthy (I)
1850 27 november Sir George William Anderson
1855 18 january Charles Justin MacCarthy (II)
1855 11 may Henry George Ward
1860 30 june Henry Frederick Lockyer
1860 30 july Charles Edmund Wilkinson
1860 22 october Charles Justin MacCarthy (III)
1863 1 december Terence O'Brien
1865 21 march Hercules George Robert Robinson
1872 4 january Henry Turner Irving
1872 4 march William Henry Gregory
1877 4 september James Robert Longden
1883 10 july John Douglas
1883 3 december Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon
1890 28 may Arthur Elibank Havelock
1895 24 october Edward Noël Walker
1896 10 february Joseph West Ridgeway
1903 19 november Edward F. im Thurn
1903 3 december Sir Henry Arthur Blake
1907 11 july Hugh Charles Clifford (I)
1907 24 august Sir Henry Edward McCallum
1913 24 january Reginald Edward Stubbs (I)
1913 18 october Robert Chalmers
1915 4 december Reginald Edward Stubbs (II)
1916 15 april Sir John Andersen
1918 24 march Reginald Edward Stubbs (III)
1918 10 september Sir William Henry Manning
1925 1 april Cecil Clementi
1925 18 october Edward Bruce Alexander
1925 30 november Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (II)
1928 20 august Sir Herbert James Stanley
1931 11 february Bernard Henry Bourdillon
1931 11 april Sir Graeme Thomson
1933 20 september Francis Graeme Tyrrell
1933 23 december Reginald Edward Stubbs (IV)
1937 30 june Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn
1937 16 october Sir Andrew Caldecott
1944 19 september Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore
1947 24 september Don Stephen Senanayake

1948-1951

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1948 4 february UK Dominion king George VI Don Stephen Senanayake Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore
1949 6 july Herwald Ramsbotham, Baron Soulbury

1951-1972

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1951 2 march
1952 6 february queen Elisabeth II
1952 22 march Dudley Shelton Senanayake (I)
1953 12 october Sir John Lionel Kotelawala
1954 17 july Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke
1956 12 april Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike
1959 26 september Vijayananda Dahanayake
1960 21 march Dudley Shelton Senanayake (II)
1960 21 july Sirimavo Bandaranaike (I)
1962 2 march William Gopallawa
1965 27 march Dudley Shelton Senanayake (III)
1970 29 may Sirimavo Bandaranaike (II)


Return to Sri Lanka

previous page

next page

Return to Asia

Return to General Index